Could making a decision to have lessmaterial goods actually increase happiness? Would it mean one would have more time, fewer distractions, fewer decisions, less stress and anxiety but more time to interact with other human beings?
Triangles have three sides, three points but can contain a perfect circle. My triangle has Peace at the top Cooperation on the left and violence out in the cold on the right. The equilateral triangle is the only one where the three aspects have equal roles. All the other triangles have one pushed out.
i realized on my walk this morning(12-13-07) that labeling the triangle the way i did implied that the left cooperates and the right are violent. So, i decided not to delete my mistake, but to change the parameters and make violence reside on which ever side extrudes the most.
This morning i had an e-mail from a woman i don't know but who is on a mailing list i am on. The topic of the original e-mail(from an attorney friend living in Colorado) concerned the mixing of god and guns there. i had responded to his original e-mail that the best response to a society being completely armed was one that set up the following scenario:
You walk into a store and shop. You have picked out all your items, rolled your cart over to the check out stand, and wait in line. An obnoxious person cuts in front of you and you protest. Instead of a verbal fisticuff, that person pulls out their gun and just blows you away.
This is what a completely armed society would look like.
The woman, who had uy at the end of her e-mail address(where is that?)wrote the following.
guns,killings,useless violence,religious fanaticsm......
i was so warmed by her response that i wrote her back to tell her i also have hope.
She and i are on one side of a triangle, the peace and cooperation side with violence being left out in the cold.
Are more people wanting to get away from the violence or am i delusional?
You walk into a store and shop. You have picked out all your items, rolled your cart over to the check out stand, and wait in line. An obnoxious person cuts in front of you and you protest. Instead of a verbal fisticuff, that person pulls out their gun and just blows you away.
This is what a completely armed society would look like.
The woman, who had uy at the end of her e-mail address(where is that?)wrote the following.
guns,killings,useless violence,religious fanaticsm......
what can men and women of good will do about it?
can anything be done to protect our children from increasing violence?
i refuse to think that there´s no hope
i was so warmed by her response that i wrote her back to tell her i also have hope.
She and i are on one side of a triangle, the peace and cooperation side with violence being left out in the cold.
Are more people wanting to get away from the violence or am i delusional?
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